IndieEthos Insiders Tour 4: Personal Shopper of ghosts and identity —...
Though on its surface Personal Shopper is a ghost story/murder mystery, the film’s real concern is for identity and desire. It’s the kind of...
34th Miami Film Festival premiered quality films seeking distribution
It’s a bit of a challenge to cover a film festival when you come down with bronchitis while also moving from one location in...
In Tesoros adventures create the basis for community — A Miami...
Tesoros, the wonderful new film by Director María Novaro, of Danzón fame, already stands as one of the best films this writer has seen this...
In Kedi cats rule the streets and offer insight into Turkish...
Kedi is a new documentary seemingly about street cats in Turkey. However, director Ceyda Torun goes so deep, she opens her storytelling to offer...
Oscar preview: Borscht, Moonlight and ‘the power of Miami’s filmmaking community’
The 10th edition of the Borscht Film Festival winds down this Sunday with great anticipation (read a report I wrote on Animal Collective’s appearance...
The Daughter features powerful acting but predictable plot – a film...
The film The Daughter opens at a small mill, which is about to close. The head of the factory, Henry Neilson (played masterfully by...
An older sister is unstoppable in Fanny’s Journey – a film...
The beautiful bucolic landscape of France and Italy is the place where Director Lola Dillon takes us to explore another angle of World War II....
The Salesman tests morals limits of a good husband — a...
It’s easy to consider hypothetical reactions when one is confronted with moral quandaries in the movies -- especially in Hollywood movies. Good and evil...
IndieEthos Insiders Tour 3: Toni Erdmann uses humor as lifeblood —...
Below the surface of its brilliantly timed screwball humor, the German Oscar contender Toni Erdmann holds a tender story of staying true to family....
Oscar Nominated I Am Not Your Negro is a steadfast look...
The idea of historic recurrence is one that has animated several thinkers to stress the importance of how a particular moment in time may...